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Berlin: Germany’s most populous state’s governor, Armin Laskett, struggled vigorously on Tuesday to become a candidate for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right block chancellor.
The 60-year-old Laskett now faces another major battle: to connect with voters and to win over frustrated fellow conservatives who supported his more popular rival, Marcus Soeder.
His union bloc is the last major political power to nominate a candidate for chancellor in 26 parliamentary elections, with Merkel not seeking a fifth term after nearly 16 years in power.
The race heated up after Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union leader, Laskett, and Soedar, who led his younger Bavarian sister’s party, led the Christian Social Union.
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